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• Blog / MIT Life

  O, GRE Battle The best of the worst entry I ever wrote.

  

  really long-winded and kind of boring entry while working Burton ... ... in case there's a chapping emergency, and one of them got lost -stain ... school admissions specialist -there was once this really funny episode of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Stud/Fac Dinners Genius idea to get free dinner with MIT geniuses

  

  of Your Friends How to Avoid Being Set Up How to Pin a Boutonniere ... of, in my opinion, are these student faculty dinners. **2007 Student ... interact more closely with some of your favorite professors from over your

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember to Breathe Chicken Soup for the Applicant's Soul

  

  So many of you are starting off with college applications trying to ... million extracurriculars I was involved in. A word of advice: Take a deep ... mom in a frenzy exclaiming that I'm not going to get into any of the

  • by Bryan
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Lovin’ Had me a blast. Or, the last post I'll write from home!

  

  half of the things on it until I get to Cambridge since most of it is ... .) Unfortunately, I went to a big public high school of about 2000+, so my high ... unlikely that any of you will get to see it unless someone starts a Pay

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holmstrom, et al.

  

  (UEA)-sponsored lunch with Professor Bengt Holmstrom, the head of the MIT Economics ... juicy bit of information: He's on the Board of Directors for Nokia ... the organization of firms, inspired by his work straight out of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesdays with Menorah, eek! A young boy, a young girl, and life's greatest lesson.

  

  kind of delicious Kosher jelly candy for passover, both stuffed into my ... really had no intention of ever being Jewish while I during my time at MIT ... the middle of February. You'd think it would be hard to combine a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection notes A brief update from selection.

  

  web, on email, or over the phone. The date of the mailing will be ... busy time! Most of us are very behind on email, phone calls, etc ... Solomon '06 did stop by to drop off a copy of the new CD by Resonance, which

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Better than a Ryan Cabrera poster Want a Warhol in your dorm room?

  

  of the Student Loan Art Collection at MIT's List Visual Arts Center ... ) to borrow for the entire academic year one of nearly 350 noted pieces of artwork from MIT's collection. Artists represented in the collection

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Stu Schmill ‘86 Name: Stu Schmill; Job title: Associate Director of Admissions and Director of the Educational Council;…

  

  Name: Stu SchmillJob title: Associate Director of Admissions and Director of the Educational CouncilHometown: Little Neck, NY (in Queens ... important in this world. And for all this passionate pursuit of excellence

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Dora the Explorer My long-lost twin has suspiciously wrinkly forearms.

  

  Zaira, an 11th grade student from Brownsville, Texas (the tip of ... to give her addiction to "papas adobadas," a kind of mexican hot Lays ... .) --------------- Thanks for all of the comments on my previous entry about PE classes

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Saturday

  

  top of a lounging student's head. A touch football game broke out on ... . Afterwards, some students stuck around to ask more questions of MIT student ... Merritt Roe Smith. After the brunches, all of the dorms provided house

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 11, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Anna’s Taqueria

  

  , because today is the grand opening of Anna's Taqueria on campus! Anna's Taqueria is perhaps the best know Boston restaurant of the variety "cheap AND ... awaiting the opening of the MIT Anna's just as eagerly as the students. Today

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Highlights From The Past Week A post on birthdays and bad (but oh so good) TV.

  

  implement a lot of my requests into MyMIT - YES! 5) Well not this week but ... actually part of the plot and (b) the kids are just so much more intelligent and witty than their counterparts of yesteryear. But it's still... The

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 14, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  here’s everything i thought about in 25 minutes an uncurated and somewhat meta discussion on anything and everything

  

  i’ve been in a perpetual state of writer's block recently (i.e. the ... typing class where i first learned the joys of nitrotype and home row ... stint and i think i was capped at like 23 which is kind of sad) and doing

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • July 16, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  An American in Copenhagen but my luggage went to Amsterdam

  

  Monday, June 13th. 9:33 pm, in the back of Öz Konya Kebab: brightly ... all day. There is oatmilk in the fridge, and a basket of granola bars ... ; two pairs of jeans; just enough socks, shirts, and underwear to get by

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 14, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  ? for example: in confronting the self, i discuss how my feelings of anxiety and feelings of depression often feel at odds with each other. in ... one day everything will change. in finding meaning at the end of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  myself a glass of water, and taking ready-to-eat baby carrots out of the fridge. Learning to cook was the one thing I hadn't crossed off all of ... about same time, June/July 2018, I and the rest of the Class of 2022 were

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunny Skies In The OC [by Mirat Shah '08] A new post, and answers to your questions from the last…

  

  the future. The first few weeks of term have been really hectic, mostly ... to all the places I wanted to see, wasn't taking advantage of being ... a birthday formal hall at our college (Emmanuel). This is one of those

  • by Cambridge
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions

  

  five questions: On a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the highest and 1 ... mental health of students? In addition, does MIT's tough grading system ... the expense of my social life/sanity? Also, how much do students tend to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  of my summer before college. i wasn’t really doing anything but also ... all kinds of shops, the preparation takes over your entire summer ... heavy.  my thoughts were torn between the excitement of what was coming

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023